8 Horror Movies Where The Killer Was Meant To Be Someone Else

8. Scream 3 - Stu Macher

Matthew Lillard's Stu Macher was famously one of the 'big reveal' killers of the first Scream movie.

Not only did Wes Craven's 1996 offering completely reinvent the slasher subgenre, it also caught many a horror hound off guard with its reveal of two killers being behind the Ghostface persona. But for Stu, Scream wasn't meant to the last that we saw of his character.

As detailed by Lillard several times in recent years - such as on the Bob Bendick podcast - there was a plan in place for his character to be orchestrating the atrocities at play in Scream 3. While the final sight of Stu was of him having a TV dropped on his head at Scream's close, we technically never had any confirmation of his death.

Scream 3 was originally to feature a slew of high school murders, with Stu revealed as the mastermind behind these demises. Once the very real, very tragic events of the shootings at Columbine happened in April 1999, the third Scream picture was rewritten - and part of those rewrites saw Stu Macher removed from the film.

Instead, the threequel revolved around Hollywood and the revelation that Sidney Prescott had a half-brother who her mother had abandoned as soon as he was born.